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Started by Rob Neufeld in Book Finds Nov 19, 2012.

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Celia Miles posted a blog post

Celia Miles' new novel, sequel to Sarranda, is available in paper and Kindle

http://www.celiamiles.comSarranda's Heart: A Love Story of Place is now available in regional independent bookstores and on Kindle, soon on Amazon.See More
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Montreat College Friends of the Library--Tommy Hays, speaker at Montreat College Gaither Fellowship Hall

June 15, 2013 from 12pm to 2:30pm
June 15, 2013 Annual luncheon of the Montreat College Friends of the Library.  Tommy Hays will be speaking about his novel The Pleasure Was Mine and previewing his upcoming  What I Came to Tell You.  Lunch at 12:00 noon in Gaither Fellowship Hall.  $15.00 for lunch and speaker.  Speaker only at 1:00 pm in adjacent Gaither Chapel $10.00.  Annual dues: $15.00Reservations:  828-669-8012 Ext. 3502 or 3504See More
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As the Twig is Bent is Available Now in Audiobook

As the Twig is Bent, the original book in the Matt Davis Mystery Series by Joe Perrone Jr, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com and iTunes.  Opening Day and Twice Bitten, the second…See More
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Charles Fletcher at CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE

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High Country Festival of the Book at Tweetsie Railroad, Watauga High School

June 21, 2013 at 8:30am to June 22, 2013 at 4pm
BISCUITS, BOOKS & BALLADS Join us June 21 for dinner at historic Tweetsie Railroad with NY Times Best-Selling Author, Sharyn McCrumb Tickets $50.00http://www.highcountryfestivalofthebook.com/tickets-for-biscuits-books--ballads.html    - WRITING WORKSHOP - June 21 from 8:30 - 4:00 At the Watauga County Public Library…See More
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Gilgamesh to Shakespeare in graphic novel form: editor of new tome in Asheville

Graphic novel classics editor comes to Asheville

Also see Seven Stories Press book description

 

            Russ Kick comes to Malaprop’s Bookstore, 7 p.m., Wednesday, to present “The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1,” which he has edited, and describes as “the world’s great literature as comics and visuals.”

            “Gilgamesh” kicks off the 512-page tome, published by Seven Stories on sturdy white paper and priced at $34.95.

            The artist, Kevin Dixon, author of “Flavor Contra Comix and Stories,” uses a hilarious, black-ink, cartoon style to tell how Gilgamesh, with help from his wilderness buddy, Enkido, overcame the enmity of Ishtar, a princess he’d spurned.

            “One fillip on his noggin and he became a bug!” Gilgamesh relates to Ishtar, enumerating the fates of her former lovers.  A panel shows what looks like a cootie appearing in a flash of light with the words, “bzzwont!” and “zort!”

            The story text, rendered from other translations by Dixon’s father, Kent Dixon, combines with the art to create a bawdiness that is better than standard English translations.

            Most of the other 55 contributions, despite brilliant work, don’t mesh the medium with the content as well.  There are a couple—Hunt Emerson’s “The Inferno” and Robert Crumb’s “London Journal” by James Boswell—that are in league with “Gilgamesh” in both quality and style.

            In all cases, “The Graphic Canon” is a supreme showcase of individual talent and genre development.

            Sanya Glisic’s “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” presents six full-page and double-page artworks—with no words. 

            Robert Berry’s and Josh Levitas’ “Sonnet 18” by Shakespeare offers a large tinted drawing for each line, adding a separate visual story—an artist’s childhood memory of his mother.

            For more information, call Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café at 254-6734.

--Rob Neufeld

 

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